Giant Crossword
ACROSS
11 Kept as sacred (8)
12 Grain husks (4)
13 Calm (6)
14 ___ intheMiddle, sitcom
starring Frankie Muniz (7)
18 Curtained (6)
19 Hangman’s loop (5)
20 Wax lyrical about (5)
21 ___ Leach, 2023
Strictly contestant (5)
22 Part of a book (4)
23 ___ Allan Poe, 19th‑century
American poet (5)
24 Coniferous tree (5)
25 Continues (7,2)
27 Cow before she has had
her first calf (6)
32 Act of police
surveillance (5‑3)
34 Distant (6)
35 Dark (3)
36 Yearly calendar (7)
39 Middlemost (7)
42 Adherent of an Indian
monotheistic religion (4)
43 Very (10)
45 Catholic leader (4)
47 Devotional hymn or song (5)
48 Counterfeit (5)
49 Network (4)
50 Move in time to music (5)
51 Noisy, disorderly (5)
56 Frank quality (8)
58 First glimpse (7)
60 Famous Tuscan wine
region (7)
61 Academic test (4)
63 Cleverly and with skill (4)
65 Religious nonconformist (7)
68 Ballast sack (7)
70 Lads who assist on
Wimbledon courts (8)
72 Beast’s nose (5)
74 Hard black wood (5)
75 Middle Eastern canal (4)
76 Quiet and shy (5) 77 Indian dish (5)
82 Antlered male animal (4)
83 Dominant trend (10)
84 Bestow (4)
85 Start of a rocket flight (4‑3)
87 Cruised (7)
89 Cooker top (3)
90 Large glass‑roofed
entrance hall (6)
93 Stiff hairs (8)
96 Academy Awards (6)
98 Baby bird (9)
99 Forcibly remove (5)
100 Purvey food (5)
105 How soon? (4)
107 Accumulate (5)
108 Control, influence (5)
109 House’s covered
entrance (5)
110 Porous (6)
111 Field for horses (7)
112 Person responsible for the contents of a publication (6)
113 Jesus’ mother (4)
114 Unfastens by twisting (8)
DOWN
1 Sweet dense oat cake (8)
2 Sulky at times (5)
3 Use (profits) as capital (8)
4 Instruct thoroughly (5)
5 Have an effect on
one another (8)
6 One who gets above
themselves (7)
7 Bridge bid (4)
8 Animate object (4,4)
9 ___ Southgate,
England manager (6)
10 Cadge (4)
11 Notorious biblical king (5)
15 Explanation that goes
with a picture (7)
16 Fleece of the
Angora goat (6)
17 1980s US alien
puppet sitcom (3) 26 Inspire affection (6)
28 Avoided (7)
29 Dutch colonist in
South Africa (4)
30 Fumes from a chimney (5)
31 London arts complex (8)
33 Sews together as a
temporary measure (5)
37 Salad dressing, informally (4)
38 LittleWomen sister (4)
40 Synthetic fibre (5)
41 Appears imminent (5)
42 Drink greedily (5)
44 Military cloth (5)
45 Susceptible (5)
46 Brilliant brain (6)
52 Asian city containing the
Red Fort (5)
53 British small change (5)
54 Diving gear (5) 55 Balls of fluff on fabric (5)
57 Alehouse (3)
59 Person who comes first
in a race (6)
62 No matter which (3)
64 Of tender years,
not yet adult (5)
66 Constructs again (8)
67 Armoured fighting
vehicles (5)
69 Fairy‑tale dwarf (5)
70 Herb or a boy’s name (5)
71 ___ Mars, singer (5)
73 Local inhabitants (7)
75 Shoe gaiter (4)
78 Accurate firearm (5)
79 Filthy air (4)
80 Suborned (6)
81 Go to see (a person
or place) (5) 86 Thin sheet of metal for
wrapping food (4)
88 Longed (7)
89 Slope (8)
91 Childish fits of temper (8)
92 Commissioned
army officers (6)
93 Style of table‑tennis shot (8)
94 Cloth for drying (3,5)
95 Plant’s blooms (7)
97 Gathering convened to
communicate with spirits (6)
101 Sidles (5)
102 Jazz band instrument,
familiarly (3)
103 Performance set to
music (5)
104 Pet charity (inits)(5)
106 Joking deception (4)
108 Positions (4)